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The People’s Council of northern Ha Giang Province yesterday, July 28, decided to dismiss the provincial People’s Committee Chairman Nguyen Truong To for immoral conduct. The People’s Council of northern Ha Giang Province yesterday decided to dismiss the provincial People’s Committee Chairman Nguyen Truong To for …
Japan and the UK are the two first countries to pledge assistance to Vietnam in 2010 at the Consultative Group (CG) Meeting. PM Nguyen Tan Dung and the two co-chair people, the Minister of Planning and Investment Vo Hong Phuc and the WB’s Director in Vietnam Victoria Kwakwa. The CM Meeting opened in Hanoi on [...]
A Vietnamese delegation led by Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung arrived in Astana capital on September 14, beginning a two-day official visit to the Republic of Kazakhstan at the invitation of his counterpart Karim Masimov. He was welcomed at Astana International Airport by senior Kazak officials, the Vietnamese ambassador to Kazakhstan, and representatives of the [...]
The National Assembly Standing Committee began its 23rd session today with a discussion on the Natural Resources Tax Bill and Property Tax Bill. National Assembly Chairman Nguyen Phu Trong speaks at the opening of the 23rd National Assembly Standing Committee session on September 9. At the opening, Minister of Finance Vu Van Ninh presented the [...]
Vietnamese people have a popular play on the words “hanh chinh” (administrative works): “hanh la chinh” (making trouble is the top priority). This reflects popular opinion about administrative formalities in Vietnam. Administrative formalities are necessary to operate a society, but in Vietnam the numbers of administrative formalities are uncountable at many ministries and government agencies. [...]
Japanese Ambassador to Vietnam Mitsuo Sakaba. Japanese Ambassador to Vietnam Mitsuo Sakaba said that this year the Japanese government will present the biggest ever sum of official development assistance (ODA) to Vietnam. “Next month, Japan and Vietnam will sign an ODA grant worth US$650 million,” he said on August 26. The Japanese Ambassador refused to [...]
Vietnam will open its second general consulate in Houston city, Texas this year. VietNamNet Bridge – Le Dung, former head of the Information and Press Department and former spokesman of the Vietnamese Foreign Ministry, has been appointed as the head of Vietnam’s new consulate general in Houston, Texas, USA. Dung has come to Texas with [...]
The country’s largest city presently has 78,000 government staffs, 2000 more than the government-permitted level. Local departments have suggested cutting 851 employees. According to the HCM City Department of Home Affairs, nine of 43 departments and 13 districts have finalised their lists of government employees who would be fired, including 58 people from departments and [...]
Minister of Information and Communications Le Doan Hop. The Minister of Home Affairs, the Minister of Transportation and the Minister of Information and Communications will be asked a series of questions by the permanent National Assembly deputies on August the 14th. The three cabinet members will have to answer questions about the hottest issues in [...]